Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] [verb] come [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am afraid I have come to the conclusion , reluctantly , that the different people and races of the world were never intended to meet . |
| 2 | By 1630 he had come to the notice of William Cavendish , Earl ( later Duke ) of Newcastle [ q.v. ] , who presented him to the living of Tormarton , Gloucestershire , and made him his chaplain at Welbeck , Nottinghamshire , where , in collaboration with Newcastle 's brother , the mathematician Sir Charles Cavendish [ q.v. ] , he maintained a correspondence , especially on optics , with mathematicians such as Walter Warner and John Pell [ qq.v. ] , and with Thomas Hobbes [ q.v. ] , whose references to Payne indicate respect for his character and abilities . |
| 3 | ‘ Hello Joe , where are you going ? ’ would stop me every 50 yards ( unless you wear a turban they are convinced you have come from the US ) . |
| 4 | That what the inspector 's been telling us year after year , that we are in serious danger of not coming up to the protection safety standards , is something that we ca n't push into the background any longer and I 'm very glad it 's come to the full council so that the whole council can take it seriously the public protection committee has taken it seriously for a very long time . |
| 5 | Among the rich and famous who had come to the salon to have their hair cut , tinted and set , Paula recognised Dusty Springfield , the pop singer , her eyes big and sooty , her lips pearly pink , and was unable to suppress the thrill of excitement which ran through her . |
| 6 | He was pretty sure he had come to the right restaurant . |
| 7 | When he reached the corner of the Whitechapel Road he was n't sure he had come to the right place . |
| 8 | Owen laboured over the living , mending them as best he could , and over the dead , making them ready for burial , until he fell and lay like dead beside the last of them , but still conscious and aware , and Adam and some of those who had come with the priest to their aid carried him away and bedded him in quietness in one of the cottages . |
| 9 | The new pathway students were not identified by tutors in the clinical clerkships , and unreported data collected by Dr Gordon Moore , who coordinated the introduction of the scheme , suggest that new pathway students tended to be assessed as rather better than those who had come through the traditional route . |
| 10 | Yet those who have come off the worse from their dealings with Hamnett may have sharper recall , among them London 's high fashion retailers Joseph Ettedgui and Peter Bertelsen . |
| 11 | Newbolt 's attitude is still very common — not only among the British ( especially those who have come under the influence of F. R. Leavis ) , but also among American free versifiers who think they are an avantgarde and who are muddled enough to think that they have Pound 's authority to back them . |
| 12 | By the turn of the century , the partnership of Jane Mason and G. Smith ran the mill , but by 1901 it had come into the hands of James Joiner , who had bought it from Crawshay and Co . |
| 13 | It was the closest we had come to the outside world in nearly four months yet they were responsible for the oil which glossed the harbour and had killed the coral . |